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Philosophy 3

The Nature of Mind

Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy of Mind

Bence Nanay

Summer 2005

 

Lecture Notes and Handouts

  

How to write a philosophy paper: Guidelines

First handout (Behaviorism and Physicalism)

Second handout (Three Kinds of Functionalism)

Third handout (The systems reply to Searle's Chinese Room argument)

Fourth handout (Mental content - Grice and Peirce)

Fifth handout (Daniel C Dennett and the Intentional Stance)

Sixth handout (Grice on Meaning)

Seventh handout (Externalism and Internalism)

Eighth handout (Dretske and Naturalism)

Last handout (McGinn)

 

Online Texts (see Syllabus)

 

Turing

Putnam

Grice

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